Here’s an index for the previous in the series.
I got this photo in July 2003 in Oswego, the 1943 Bushey tug WYTM-71 Apalachee. I haven’t seen it since, although it was at one time in Cleveland. Anyone know if it’s still there?
Here’s another Great Lakes tug, for now. This photo of James A. Hannah was taken by Jan van der Doe in Hamilton harbor in late May 2015. I posted it here then in this larger context. And here in February 2012, thanks to Isaac Pennock. Now I knew that James (LT-820, launched July 1945) was a sister to Bloxom (LT-653) and that the Hannah fleet had been sold off in 2009 in a US Marshal’s sale, but I hadn’t known until yesterday that the CEO of the Hannah fleet–Donald C. Hannah–was Daryl C. Hannah’s father!! That Daryl Hannah! But it gets even better, there once was a towboat named Daryl C. Hannah! Anyone know what became of it? Last I could find, it was on the bank of the Calumet River used as an office. Updates?
As you can tell, this photo was taken in the East River. It was July 2009 that Marjorie B. McAllister escorts Atlantic Superior as it heads for sea. Any ideas where Atlantic Superior is today? Actually, I know this one . . . after a long and eventful life, she powered herself over to China this year to be scrapped.
I haven’t seen Bismarck Sea here in quite a while, but last I knew, she was operating in the Pacific Northwest.
King Philip . . . went to Ecuador around 2012; Patriot Service is still working in the Gulf of Mexico, I believe.
And to round out this glance back, here’s a list of WW2 vessels still operating at the time of its compilation. Many thanks to aka Fairlane for putting it together.
Thanks to Jan van der Doe for the Hannah photo; all others by Will Van Dorp.
By the way, it was rewatching The Pope of Greenwich Village that got me to wonder about Daryl Hannah.
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August 17, 2015 at 9:22 am
tugboathunter
Apalachee is reportedly at the Basic Shipyard in Escanaba. Went there for a refit, and the shipyard claimed ownership after the owners ran out of money. Basic has a large collection of old junk tugs sitting around being used as parts sources.
August 17, 2015 at 9:25 am
tugster
tbh–thanks for the update. running out of money during a refit . . . an all-too-frequent occurrence?
August 17, 2015 at 11:29 am
William Lafferty
There were two Daryl C. Hannahs. The first was built 1943 at Gulfport Boiler & Engine Works, Inc., for the Army at Port Arthur, Texas, as ATR-99, and reclassified ATA-172. Transferred to the Panama Canal Company in 1947, it was then renamed Taboga. Keith Malcolm brought it to the lakes in 1971 and Hannah purchased it in 1974, and it ran as the Daryl C. Hannah until Hannah sold it to Selvick Marine Towing Corporation out of Sturgeon Bay in 1988, renamed Carl William Selvick. In August 1998 Selvick sold it to Roger Rouzier who renamed her Rosa M, registered out of New Orleans. She found her way to Panamanian registry, owned by the Rozier family’s Marintec Towing & Salvage Company at Port-au-Prince, Haiti. It is now known as Salvage 1, owned by Gulf & Caribbean Tug Service, Ltd., Kingston, Jamaica, but I recall seeing a photo of it recently and it appears to be in a derelict state.
The second Daryl C. Hannah, a towboat with a retractable pilothouse, was built less than two miles from where it now reposes, just south of Ewing Avenue on the Calumet River at the yard of the long defunct Calumet Shipyard & Drydock Company in 1956 for the Rose Barge Line, Inc., of Marseilles, Illinois, as Cindy Jo. In 1968 it was sold to Inland Waterways, Inc., of St. Louis and renamed Katherine L. It migrated to Huffman Towing Company, St. Louis, in 1979 and to Inland River Transportation Corp., Houston in 1989 before being sold to Hannah and renamed Daryl C. Hannah in 1993. Calumet River Fleeting, Inc., took possession of the vessel in 2011 after it laid idle following Hannah’s 2009 liquidation, in which it went unsold. Today it sits unused in the flooded drydocks of the old American Ship Building Company site at 102nd Street and the Calumet River where Calumet Fleeting houses its ramshackle collection of tugs.
James Hannah starting in trucking around Chicago after the war, and found a niche in towing oil barges from the refineries at Lemont to the lakefront at Chicago where larger tugs picked them up for crosslake towing. In the mid-60s he made a killing by contracting with Bethlehem Steel to remove the sand being excavated for the new Burns Harbor in northern Indiana, then contracting with my alma mater, Northwestern University, to dump the sand in the lake off Evanston where the university was extending its campus into Lake Michigan.
August 17, 2015 at 1:23 pm
tugster
Bill– You’re the best. Here is the first Daryl C. Hannah: http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/38/38172.htm and a better photo here: http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1959880